NAME
Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase - Inflect short English Phrases
SYNOPSIS
use Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase;
use Test::More tests => 2;
my $plural = Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_PL('green egg and ham');
is $plural, 'green eggs and ham';
my $singular = Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_S('green eggs and ham');
is $singular, 'green egg and ham';
DESCRIPTION
Attempts to pluralize or singularize short English phrases.
Does not throw exceptions at present, if you attempt to pluralize an
already pluralized phrase, it will leave it unchanged (and vice versa.)
The behavior of this module is subject to change as I tweak the
heuristics, as some things get fixed others might regress. The
processing of natural language is a messy business.
If it doesn't work, please email or submit to RT the example you tried,
and I'll try to fix it.
OPTIONS
By default, this module prefers to treat words as nouns (sometimes words
can be interpreted as a verb or a noun without context.) This is better
for things such as database table/column names, which is what this
module is primarily for.
This behavior can be switched with the variable $prefer_nouns. The
default is 1.
For example:
{
local $Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::prefer_nouns = 0;
is Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_S('sources split'), 'source splits';
}
{
local $Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::prefer_nouns = 1;
is Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_S('source splits'), 'source split';
}
OPTIONAL EXPORTS
"to_PL", "to_S"
SUBROUTINES
to_PL
Attempts to pluralizes a phrase unless already plural.
to_S
Attempts to singularize a phrase unless already singular.
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to
"bug-lingua-en-inflect-phrase at rt.cpan.org", or through the web
interface at
. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of
progress on your bug as I make changes.
SUPPORT
More information at:
* RT: CPAN's request tracker
* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
* CPAN Ratings
* Search CPAN
REPOSITORY
git clone git://github.com/rkitover/lingua-en-inflect-phrase.git lingua-en-inflect-phrase
SEE ALSO
Lingua::EN::Inflect, Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number, Lingua::EN::Tagger
AUTHOR
Rafael Kitover
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2010 Rafael Kitover (rkitover@cpan.org).
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.